Plants for Food and Fibre Inquiry Name: Here are some questions we should consider as we prepare for our plants unit. We will be building our knowledge and vocabulary of plants so that we can begin our plant experiments. 1) What are ways that humans use plants? to eat food, decoration and and we wear them 2) How are plants important to ecosystems?Other animals eat them and they give us humans oxygen 3) Many plants look very different by the time we eat them. Identify the plant of each food product and briefly explain how it is made.
Margarine-margarine can be made from any of a wide variety of animal or vegetable fats, and is often mixed with skimmed milk and salt
4) Plants also provide fibers that humans use. How do humans use the fibres of the following plants: a) Cotton - cotton fiber is made into yarn.we use cotton by using it to make our clothes and toilet paper b) Hemp-food ,paper and fabric c) Flax- finer fabric yarns, canvas and toweling
5) What advantages does hemp have over other fibre plants such as wood and cotton?
6) What kind of plants can be used to make the following items:
a) Denim- originally denim was made of strong material called wool later it was changed to cotton.
The first two steps in blue jeans manufacture are carding and spinning. In carding, the cotton is put through a machine with bent wire brushes. The brushes clean, disentangle, straighten, and gather the cotton threads into sliver. After several slivers are joined together, they are put on spinning machines that twist and stretch the cotton to form yarn.
8) What are some kinds of plants that can be used for medicine? (name the plant and what it does to help us feel better) plants like sage and the marsh mallow has the classification Althaea officinalis, as it was traditionally used as an emollient to soothe ulcers
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9) What role do plants have in our methods of transportation?
10) How do we use plants in construction?we use them to build houses 11) How do plants provide humans with fuel?we use it to fiel uor boys 12) If all of the plants on Earth died, what are some of the effects we would face?we would have no air 13) Which effects would be the most immediate and serious?the earth would have no air and people would die instantly
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Here are some questions we should consider as we prepare for our plants unit. We will be building our knowledge and vocabulary of plants so that we can begin our plant experiments.
1) What are ways that humans use plants? to eat food, decoration and and we wear them
2) How are plants important to ecosystems?Other animals eat them and they give us humans oxygen
3) Many plants look very different by the time we eat them. Identify the plant of each food product and briefly explain how it is made.
a) Chocolate (yum!) IT is made from the Cacao Tree how its made - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdTpA0luD2u&feature=youtube_gdata_player
b) Cooking Oil Cooking oil is made either cold pressed from olive and sesame they are also refined.
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c) Sugar is refined grains of sucrose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIgavNuBRRA
Margarine-margarine can be made from any of a wide variety of animal or vegetable fats, and is often mixed with skimmed milk and salt
4) Plants also provide fibers that humans use. How do humans use the fibres of the following plants:
a) Cotton - cotton fiber is made into yarn.we use cotton by using it to make our clothes and toilet paper
b) Hemp-food ,paper and fabric
c) Flax- finer fabric yarns, canvas and toweling
5) What advantages does hemp have over other fibre plants such as wood and cotton?
6) What kind of plants can be used to make the following items:
a) Denim- originally denim was made of strong material called wool later it was changed to cotton.
b) Diapers-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4EJzZxsymQ&feature=fvwrel htey are made from cotton plants
c) Paper - duh trees
d) rubber latex sao
7) Silk is the most expensive fibre in the world but it is not produced directly from plants. How is silk produced?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wbmEjTvszI
8) What are some kinds of plants that can be used for medicine? (name the plant and what it does to help us feel better) plants like sage and the marsh mallow has the classification Althaea officinalis, as it was traditionally used as an emollient to soothe ulcers
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9) What role do plants have in our methods of transportation?
10) How do we use plants in construction?we use them to build houses
11) How do plants provide humans with fuel?we use it to fiel uor boys
12) If all of the plants on Earth died, what are some of the effects we would face?we would have no air
13) Which effects would be the most immediate and serious?the earth would have no air and people would die instantly